born in atlantic city in 1921, woodland learned morse code as a boy scout. years later in engineering school he and a classmate bernard silver worked to devise a graphic version of the code. one that could be used to track product information. the result was this. a sort of bulls eye with lines of varying widths, and in 1952 they pat ented what they called a classifying apparatus and method. ahead of out time, the idea languished and they sold the patent to philco for $15,000, all they ever made for their invention. wood land went onto work for ibm where in the early 1970s a colleague named george lowerer designed the retack language bar code we know today. last year wood land's daughter was there for his induction into the inventors hall of fame, he died last sunday at the age of 91. but his genius lives on, every time you hear this, take a moment to thank norman joseph woodland, for your speedy check out. coming up, once again. ,,,,,,,,,, >> osgood: in the aftermath of friday's shootings in newtown, connecticut we can now add the name adam lanza to the gal